[HOT] Problems with android phones

[Alessandro Fanna]

Sorry, I missed the thread and would like to suggest also Tracker Booster
as a small tweak for Android smartphones. It runs in the background and
doesn't use too much battery.
Il giorno 03/mar/2012 15:58, "Brian Wolford" <worldwidewolford at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> Hey,
> So there has been a problem with some androids I have encountered and met
> another person running into the same problems.
> Some phones were taking very long times to get GPS fixes (ussually not at
> all) and after they did they were putting points out in Jamaica or the
> ocean south of Cuba.
>
> A common thread between the problem phones seemed to be that they were
> from Europe. North American phones seemed to have no problem.
> So the solution seems to be changing the NTP server in the  'gps.conf'
> file to the North American server.
>
> This can be accomplished two ways:
> 1: The app FasterFix
> https://market.android.com/details?id=com.Double.FasterFix&hl=en
> 2: Manually
> http://www.xda-developers.com/android/fix-your-european-android-gps-lock-manually/
>
> You of course need to be a 'root' user. But you should do that when
> unboxing anyway.
>
> This is caused by using Assisted GPS (A-GPS) for the first point, which
> uses the network to get faster fixes.
>
> Thought this would be useful to share and hopefully save some headaches.
> -brian
>
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